Type-writing machine.



E. B. HESS.

TYPE WRITING MAGHINE.

1 IWITNESSES: 1 1 +9 5 Q 07' Maid APPLIOATION FILED SEPT, 25, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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/ 7wrofl (I QM 502mg! A TTORNE Y irnzgr cri ics EDWARD B. HESS, OF NEW YORK, N. YQ, ASSIGNOR T ROYAL TYPEWRITER oOMPAnY; or NEW YORK, 1v. Y., A CORPORATION OE NEW JEEsnY.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 25, 1909. Serial No. 519,614.

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that l, EDWARD B. Hess, a

. citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain Improvement in TypelVriting Machines, of which the followil'ig is a specification.

'Ihisinvention relates to means for controlling cards and sheets being printed upon. It is shown applied to. a front-strike 1nachine with a vertically shiftable carriage known as the Royal Standard.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a top plan view; Fig. 2, a front elevation; and Fig. 3, a transverse section justinside the right hand end plate of the earriage.

The several features of novelty in the illustrated organization may be capable of use independently. Their combined use, however, all'ords ellicient results in respect to the control in the machine of cards and sheets being printed upon.

()ne of the features of this invention is a 'a-rd guide and holder arranged closely adjacent the printing surface of the platen. It. has two arms or bifurcations l, 1, extending vertically in front. of the platen on each side of the point at which printing-occurs and arries a scale 2 adjustably mounted thereon. 30f suitable contour attached to the shitt rail 4 of the carriage so that the relation between the scale and platen will be maintained either in normal or shifted position of the carriage. The upper ends of these arms are adapted, formed or equipped to hold a card or sheet against the printing surface of the platen and direct it rearwardly therefrom. The edge of the s tale 2 is. designed to be at and parallel with the line of print. To provide means for its accu'atc adjustment in assembling the machine to compensate for minute variation of proportions or relationship in manufacture, it is adjustably mounted upon its supporting arms 1 in any appropriate way. The means shown in the present instance comprise slots 5 in the arms 1, indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, cooperating with adjusting clamping screws working in tapped apertures in the scale plate and extending through the vertical arms. When the plate 3 is attached to the shift rail 1 as it may be The arms are carried by a plate by means of screws 7, the scale plate or bar 2 may then be adjusted with accuracy to the printing line on the platen. Such a two piece card holder or guide having capacity for adjustment as to position is, so far as I am aware, new in this art.

.Xnother feature of the invention relates to the means located at or forming a part of the upper ends of the arms 1 and acting to hold and rearwardly deflect a card or sheet being printed on. This part of the invention comprises rolls mounted to turn freely on vertical pins or roller shafts carried at the upper ends of the parts 1. As shown, these parts 1 are turned over at the ends to form flat. projections 8 extending toward the front of the machine and in such parts 8 are fixed the roller shafts or spindles 9 upon which the rollers 10 are mounted to turn freely. -llacltof these rollers is of irregular diameter, that to say, their diameter increases fromthe bottom upwardly so that the side of the roller in elevation shows as a curved line. This cmved-line may be and preferably such as to follow the curve of the platen closely adjacent the surface thereof. The eliect isto facilitate the passage ofa card as the carriage feeds and to' guide it rearwardly in its discharge from the platen. This arrangement and construction of the card" guide or holding roller is, so far as I am aware, a novelty in this art.

The scale plate beyond orout'side of the vertical arms 1 is at its ends preferably deflected toward the front of the machine and equipped with rounded knobs, this latter feature being merely for protection of the hands of the operator.

I prefer to employ in cooperation with the card holder and guide, guiding rolls 12, 12, located (when in operation) on opposite sides, respectively, of the printing point and adjacent the ends of the holding and guiding arms .1. These rolls are on the transverse rod 13 of a bail whose arms 14 are hinged on a transverse carriage rod 15 in rear of the platen. This latter rod may be and. is,

-shown, the tabulator rod of the machine. ()n the upper edge of each arm 1% are two separated outwardly turned lugs 16, 16, between which is a coiled spring 17 through which and the lugs passes a headed rod 18 the rounded rear end of which works against the edge of a bracket 19 attached to bar 15. The organization is such that when Patented Feb. 22, 1916.

the bail is thrown upward out of operation it is held up and when drawn down it is held down and spring pressed. 4

The space between the arms 1, 1, and rolls 1O, 10 is sufficient for the reception of the I which is an impression point indicator and posits sides of the printing point closely adreceives the heads of the type bars. The ends of the arms or devices 1, 1, serve to hold a card or sheet so that impressions may be satisfactorily made closely adjacent its upper edge. lhe devices 12 act to so hold the card in cooperation with the holding arms that satisfactory impressions. may be made closely adjacent thelower edge.

I claim:

1. A card holder comprising card holding arms adapted to be disposed respectively on opposite sides of the printing point on a c lindrical platen and a scale carried by t e arms and capable of adjustment thereon toward and from the line of print in a plane substantially tangent to the surface of the platen.

2. The combination with the platen of a front strike typewriting machine of a card holder compr sing vertically disposed arms adapted t'obe disposed respectively on olppoaten .site sides of the printing point on thep and a scale ad'ustably carried by the arms and capable of adjustment thereontoward and from the line of print in a plane sub stantially tangent to the surface of the platen. p

3. A t'ypewriting machine card holder comprising separated card holding arms adapted to be disposed respectively on opposite sides of the printing oint closely adjacent the platen surface and a scale extending between and secured to said arms.

4. A typewritingmachine card holder comprising separated card holding arms adapted to be disposed respectively on'0p-' posite sidesof the printing point closely adjacent the platen surface anda scale extending between and beyond and secured to said "arms.

5. A typewriting. machine card' holder comprising separated card holding arms 'ada ted.to be' disposed respectively on o osite sides of the printing point closelya acent the platen surfaceand a scale extendingbetween and secured to said arms and having its ends deflected toward the "front of the machine.

v 6. A typewriting machine card holder comprising separated card holding arms adaptedto be disposed respectively on opjaeent the platen surface and a scale extendingbetwcen and secured to said arms and having in. its upper edge intermediate the arms a notch to receive the type bar heads.-

7. A typewriting machine card holder comprising separated card holding arms adapted to be disposed respectively on opposite sides of the printing point closely adjacent the platensurface and a scale extending between and adjustably secured to said arms.

8. A card holder comprising aholding and guidingroller adaptedto be disposed to one side of the printing point adjacent the platen and of greater diameter at one end than at the other. A v

9. A card holder comprising aholding and guiding roller adapted to be disposed to one side of the printing poin,t of a front strike typewriting machine and of less diameter at the bottom than at the top.

10. A card holder comprising a holding and guidin roller adapted to be disposed to one side 0% the printing point of a front strike typewriting machine and of gradually increasing diameter from the bottom to'the top.

11. A card holder adapted to cooperate with a cylindrical of which increases rom one end toward the other so that the curvature of the periphery .of theroller in the plane of its axis conforms substantially to the curvature of the platen. I

12. The combination with a cylindrical platen of a front strike typewriting machine of a card holder having holding and guiding arms adapted td be disposed in front of the platen on opposite sides, respectively, of-

the printing point and a sprlng pressed bail hingedjn reap of the platen, adapted to beindependently swung into and out of operation and the transverse rod of which, when in operation, extends along the front face of the platen and guiding rolls carried by said rod and located, whenin operation, on opposlte sides, respectively, of the printing point above or beyondthe line of print and laten and the diameter.

adjacentthe ends of said holding and guiding arms.

13. The combination with thecylindrical platen of a front strike typewriting machine of a card holder having holding and guid-' ing arms disposed in front of 'the platen on opposite sides, respectively,'of the printing point and that is stationary with respect to the transverse travel of the platen, and card holding and guiding devices hinged in rear of and above the printing lineand adapted to be swung rearwardly out of operative position and to be swung independently of the card holding arms down into operative position adjacent the ends of, said arms and above them'and the printingdine.

The combination withlth position and to be simultaneously swung independently of the card holding arms down into operative position adjacent the ends of said arms and above themrand the printing line.

15; The combination with a cylindrical platen of a visible typewriting machine, of a card holder stationary with respect to the transverse travel of the platen, located in front of the platen and adapt-ed to hold a card against the printing surface thereof, and a bail moving with the platen and independent of the paper feed devices and whose cross rod is parallel with the axis of the platen and is a card holding means and whose side arms are hinged in rear ofjthe platen on the platen carriage and adjacentthe sides thereof and which is adapted to be swung rearwardly into inoperatlve position and forwardly over the platen into operative position with its cross rod in rear of the card holder and adjacent the printing line.

16. The combination with a cylindrical platen of a visible writing'machine, of a hail, independent of the paper feed devices of the machine, whose cross rod is parallel with the platen and acts as a paper 'or card holding means and whose side arms are hinged on the platen carriage adjacent its ends and which is adapted to be swung rearwardly into inoperative position and forwardly over the platen into operative position with its cross rod above and adjacent the printing line. guiding and feeding rolls carried by said bail and spring means for pressingthe rolls against the platen when they are in operative position.

17. A card holder adapted to cooperate with the rotatable transversely movable platenof a ty 'icn 'riting machine, said holder being adapted to be mounted upon a part of the machine stationary, with respect to' the transverse movement of'the carriage and having two arms whose ends are disposed above the line of print and respectively on" opposite sides of the printing point and a cross bar bearing" a scale and connecting the two arms at or below the line of print.

18. A card holder adapted to cotiperate with the rotatable transversely movable platen of a typewritingmachine, said holder being adapted to be mounted upon a part of the machine stationary with respect to the transverse-movement of the carriage and having two arms whose ends are disposed above the'line of print and respectively on opposite sides of the printingfipoint and across bar bearing a scale and connecting the two arms at or below the line of print combined with abail whose side arms are pivotally mounted on the platen carriageand whose'bail when in operative position bears upon the face of the platen above the ends 0 the card holder arms, said bail being adapted tobe thrownback into inoperative position when printing upon sheets 1s being one. :i-

19IA card holder adapted to cooperate platenof a typewriting machine, said holder being adapted to be mounted upon a part of the machine stationary with respect to the transverse movement of the carriage and whose axes are transverse to that of the platen said rollers being disposed ,above the line .of rint and'on opposite sides respectively of the printing polnt.

with the rotatable transversely movable platen fa'tylfiwriting"machine,-saidholder being adapted to be mounted uponsa part of the machine stationary with respect to the transverse movement of the carriage and having two arms terminating in rollers whose axes are transverse to that' of the laten said rollers being disposed above the ine'of print and on opposlte sides respectively of the printingpoin't and across bar hearinga scale and connecting the -two arms of the card holder. I

21. A card holder adapted to cooperate with'the rotatable transversely movable platen of a typewriting machine, said holder transverse movement of the carriage and having two arms terminat ng 1n rollers i line ofprint and on opposite sides respectively of the printing point combined with a bail whose side arms are pivotally mounted 20. A card holder adapted to cooperate being adapted to be mounted upon a part of the machine stationary with respect tothewhose axes are transverse to that of the: I platen said rollers being disposed above the with the rotatable transversely movable' having two arms terminating in rollers 5 on the platen carriage and whose bail when p l inoperative position bears upon the face i of the platen above the ends of the card i holder arms, said bail being adaptedto be printing upon sheets is being done. j

1' In testimony whereof, "I have hereunto subscribed my name.

nnwaan B. HESS".-

A. J. SHERIDAN.

thrown back into inoperative position when 

